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CAUSES OF THE PRESENT CRISIS. 



So much lias been said and written upon the slavery question, 
that to add any thing seems almost a work of supererogation. 
The intention of this pamphlet is not ^o discuss the right or 
wrong, the advantages or disadvantages, of tkis institution ; but 
there are considerations connected with this subject which have 
hitherto been to a great extent, overlooked, while their importance 
is such as to commend them to the attention of every American 
patriot. Our path is beset with snares and pitfalls, and the ene- 
mies of free institutions are plotting the destruction of our sys- 
tem of government, while few even of eur Statesmen seem to be 
aware of the dangers which environ us. An effort is here made 
to point out and to prove that there are two formidable schemes 
in operation to destroy this Government. 

The two schemers, are the English Government and the Jesuits 
or the Austrian Government. Diverse and antagonistic as they 
are, still, in their scheming they sometimes act in concert. 

At the first whisper of Jesuitism, the hue and cry of religious 
intolerance, proscription and persecution will be raised. Accusa- 
tion will be made, that it is desired to array Protestants against 
Catholics. These, and various other pretexts, will be resorted to, 
in order to divert attention from the true issue. 

But when we find in our midst men who come purposely to per- 
vert our institutions and destroy our liberties, shall we sit still 
and let them do their work unmolested, simply because they make 
use of a church as a cloak for their evil deeds ? 

If we cannot, as a nation, do something to protect ourselves 
without the reproach of being intolerant, then let us take the re- 
proach. 

When our ancestors settled the British colonies of North Ameri- 
ca, they came here with a supreme regard to the enjoyment of 
their liberty and their religion. They left home and friends, and ' 
though they came here to find a new home, they ever looked to 
and spoke of England, as home. 

Enjoying the luxuries of peace and plenty, we can scarcely 
realize the almost insurmountable trials and difficulties they had 
to endure. And in all their troubles they had so little sympathy 



and aid from the home government, the wonder is not that they 
became independent at last, but that thej did not revolt years 
before. 

The French, who had formed alliances with the Indians on the 
St. Lawrence nearly a hundred years before the pilgrims landed, 
were still on friendly terms with them, and as England and France 
were rivals, the French with the Indians as allies, were constantly 
encroaching upon the British colonies. 

With these enemies, the Colonists had to contend from the year 
1675, when the first general war, called "Philip's war" com- 
menced, to the year 1783. Within this period there were seven 
wars. 

The first was excited by Philip, and was confined to the savages 
against the English. The five following were stimulated by the 
French, who supplied them with all the means that ingenuity 
and wealth could command. These, added to Indian cunning, 
treachery and cruelty, were sufficiently formidable ; but when 
the expeditions were planned by European officers, who, in- 
stead of discountenancing the inhuman and barbarous modes of 
warfare practised by the Indians, actually encouraged them by 
oiFering a reward for scalps taken by their savage allies, the re- 
sults were too horrible to be thought of. 

This devastation and slaughter were sanctioned by the Jesuit 
priests, and these savages, while their hands were yet dropping 
blood, were caressed and cherished by men, regarded by them as 
superior beings, and professing themselves to be followers of the 
Saviour. 

The last of the seven wars was instigated by Great Britain du- 
ring the Revolution. 

By the treaty of Paris in 1763, Canada was secured to Great 
Britain, and when the Revolutionary war commenced. Lord Suf- 
folk, in the House of Peers, undertook to defend the employment 
of the Indians, in the war. His lordship contended, that besides 
its policy and necessity, the measure was also allowable on princi- 
ple, for that, " it was perfectly justifiable to use all the means 
that (rod and nature put into our hands to subdue America." 

" I AM astonished! (exclaimed Lord Chatham, as he rose) 
shocked ! to hear such principles confessed, to hear them avowed 
in this house, or in this country — principles equally uncon- 
stitutional, inhuman and unchristian. Spain armed herself 
with blood-hounds to extirpate the wretched natives of America ; 
and we improv^e on the inhuman example even of Spanish 
cruelty ; we turn loose these savage hell-hounds against our 
brethren and countrymen in America, of the same language, 
laws, liberties and religion, and endeared to us by every tie that 
should sanctify humanity." 



Notwithstanding this protest, the Indiana continued to be em- 
ployed, and all the horrible consequences realized. 

But, with all the means which God and nature had put into her 
hands, after spending seven hundred and fifty millions of dol- 
lars and at the loss of hundreds of thousands of her best men, 
she lost her hold upon us as English colonies, and was obliged 
to acknowledge our independence to the world, but never for a 
moment giving up the idea, that she would, at some future time, 
regain her dominion over us ; or at least, over the New Eng- 
land States. 

To accomplish this, it was necessary that her whole policy should 
be changed, not only here but elsewhere. 

With a superabundant and starving population which she must 
keep employed in manufacturing and commercial pursuits, England 
felt no intersst in the colonists, except as customers for her mer- 
chandise. 

There were magnificent ideas about the extent of commercial ex- 
change as the population increased, and all the restrictions upon 
the commerce, navigation, and manufactures of the colonies, were 
imposed with the intention of confining the national industry to 
agriculture, or to make us the producers of food and of raw ma- 
terials to be manufactured in England. 

While we were British Colonies, every vessel launched and 
every sail flung to the winds was an addition to the maritime 
strength of England ; but when she lost her hold upon us our po- 
sition was entirely changed. 

She has been called mistress of the seas, and a choice saying of 
Englishmen has been " the sea is ours." To retain this position, 
every thing must be done to prevent the commerce of America 
from coming into competition with the commerce of England. To 
accomplish, this it was essential that the East India trade^ should 
be extended; and as the most effectual mode of producing this 
desirable result, the slave trade must be broken up. 

By the Assiento of 1713, a company of English merchants un- 
dertook to supply the Spanish American Colonies Avith negro slaves 
for thirty years. It soon passed into the hands of the English 
government, and was vested in the South Sea Company. 

By the twelfth article of the treaty of Utrecht, this Assiento 
was confirmed, by which the Royal African Company gave to 
Spain 200,000 crowns, and to the King" of Spain and Queen of 
England, each, one quarter share in the profits of their trade. 

Einding this trade exceedingly profitable it was extended to the 
British Colonies much against the will of the people, both North 
and South. 

About this time, Queen Anne directed the colonial government 
of New York "to take care that the Almighty should bo devout- 



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ly and duly served according to the rites of the Church of Eng- 
land, and also, that the Royal African Company should be encour- 
aged, and that the colony should have a constant and sufficient 
supply of merchantable negroes at moderate rates." 

Thus it will be seen that English interest forced slavery upon 
us. A want of laborers combined with an enervating climate, 
made it a permanent institution at the South, where the slaves 
thrived, whereas at the North, a cool bracing climate enabled the 
white man to labor, while the slave, shivering v»^ith cold, was soon 
frozen out. Besides being uEprofitable m the North, there was 
more or less aversion on the part of the New Englanders to hold- 
ing slaves. This too was the case in the South until it was de- 
monstrated beyond question, that white laborers could not endure 
the heat of the climate. 

From the first dawn of maritime enterprise in Great Britian, 
the trade of India was contemplated as its grandest object. Into 
the sanguine conceptions formed on the subject much illusion en- 
tered ; yet there were circumstances which., even at that early stage 
of mercantile adventure, threw peculiar lustre on the trade of 
India, enhanced, no doubt, by the remembrance of the immense 
wealth brought by the ships of Solomon from Ophir, supposed to 
be India. 

All that had been done in the trade up to the year 160O, was by 
private enterprise. At this time a company was chartered and 
rechartered at various times until 1773, when the East India bill 
was passed, placing the affairs in the hands of the Government. 

England saw that if she could exchange her maaufactures for 
the tropical products of India, she could still command the sea and 
its commerce, because she v/ould find a market in every sea- 
port. 

To accomplish this, she must be able to undersell all the world. 

Profitable as the slave trade had been and still was, it must be 
sacrificed to prevent the Spanish American colonies, Brazil and 
the United States, from underselling England in foreign markets. 
■This could only be done by cutting off the the supply of laborers. 
Sir Robert Peel said, the Bast Indian coul-l ,:m{ successfully com- 
|)ete with the American slave. 

But England dare not avow her motives even at home, as too 
much capital was invested in the slave trade. To conceal her 
real intentions, the mask of religion and philanthropy was put on. 
The proposition to abolish the slave trade was brought up, discuss- 
ed, and voted down, time after time, in the British Parliament, 
until 1807, when it was finally abolished. 

When England found that breaking up the slave trade would 
saot cripple our commerce as she hoped, she commenced a system 
of outrageous aggressions upon our shipping. Her spies were 



scattered over the country, gatliering up all the information that 
could be made available, as ^Yell as sowing dissensions among the 
people. And in 1809, while peaceful negotiations were in pro- 
gress to settle the difficulties between the two nations, Sir James 
H. Craig, then Governor General of the British provinces in 
North America, employed Captain J. Henry as a seci-et agent or 
spy to go to Boston and enter into negotiations vfith those op- 
posed to the Government. In his letter of instruction he says i. 
" It has been supposed that if the Federalists of the Eastern States 
should be successful in obtaining that decided influence which may 
enable them to direct the public opinion, it is not improbable that,- 
rather than submit to a continuance of the difficulties and distress 
to which they are now subject, they will exert that influence to 
bring about a separation from the general union. The earliest 
information on this subject may be of great consequence to our 
government, as it may also be, that it should be informed hoivfar^ 
in such an event, they would look to England for assistance or be 
disposed to enter into a connection with us." 

Henry went to Burlington, Vermont, where he says : " I have 
remained two days in order fully to ascertain the progress of the- 
arrangements heretofore made for organizing an efficient opposi- 
ion to the General Government." And the Governor makes no 
secret of his determination, as commander-in-chief of the militia, 
to refuse obedience to any command from the General Govern- 
ment which can tend to interrupt the good understanding that 
prevails between the citizens of Vermont and his majesty's sub- 
jects in Canada." 

In the eastern part of the state, secession was not so popular. 

Henry went to Boston and there found so many opposed to the' 
general government and so communicative, that he obtained all 
the information necessary, without being obliged to produce his- 
credentials. 

He says "it does not appear necessary that I should discover 
to any person the purpose of my visit to Boston. I have suffi- 
cient means of information to enable me to judge of the proper 
period for offering the co-operation of Great Britain, and opening 
correspondence between the Governor General of British America 
ajid those individuals who, from the part they take in the oppo- 
sition to the National Government, or the influence they may pos- 
sess in any new order of things that may grow out of the present 
differences, should be qualified to act on behalf of the Northern 
States." 

^ A few extracts from this correspondence, which i-s quite lengthy,- 
■will be sufficient to show the design of the mission. 

" With regard to Great Britain, she can scarce mistake her 
true policy in relation to America. If peace be the first object, 



every act which can irritate the maritime states ought to be avoi- 
ded ; because the prevailing disposition of these will generally be 
sufficient to keep the Government from hazarding any hostile 
measure. If a war between America and France be a grand de- 
sideratum, something more must be done, an indulgent conciliatory 
policy must be adopted, which will leave the democrats without a 
pretext for hostilities; and Bonaparte, whose passions are too 
hot for delay, will probably compel this government to decide 
which of the two great belligerents is to be its enemy. 

To bring about a separation of the States under distinct and 
independent governments, is an affair of more uncertainty ; and 
however desirable, cannot be effected but by a series of acts and long 
continued policy, tending to irritate the Southern and conciliate 
the Northern people. The former are agricultural, the latter a 
commercial people. The mode of cheering and depressing either 
is too obvious to require illustration. This, I am aware, is an 
object of much interest in Great Britain, as it would forever secure 
the integrity of his majesty's possessions on the continent, and 
make the two governments, or whatever number the present con- 
federacy might form into, as useful and as much subject to the 
influence of Great Britain as her colonies can be rendered. But 
it is an object only to he attained by slow and circumspect pro- 
gression, and requires for its consummation more attention to the 
affairs which agitate and excite parties in this country, than 
Great Britain has yet bestowed upon it." 

" It should, therefore, be the peculiar care of Great Britain, to 
foster division between the North and the South ; and by succeed- 
ing in this, she may carry into effect her own projects in Europe 
with a total disregard to the resentment of the democrats of this 
country." "A war would produce an incurable alienation of the 
Eastern States and bring the whole country in subordination to 
the interest of England, whose navy would prescribe and enforce 
the terms upon which the commercial states should carry, and the 
agricultural states export their surplus produce." Should w^ar be 
declared, the legislature of Massachusetts will give the tone to 
the neighbouring states ; will declare itself permanent until a new 
election of members ; invite a congress, to be composed of dele- 
gates from the Federal states, and erect a separate government 
for their common defence and common interest." 

"This congress would probably begin, by abrogating the offen- 
sive laws and adopting a plan for the maintenance of the power 
and authority thus assumed. They would, by such an act, be in a 
condition to make or receive proposals from Great Britain, and I 
should seize the first moment to open a correspondence with your 
excellency. Scarce any other aid would be necessary and per- 
haps none required, than a few vessels of war from the Halifax 



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station to protect the maritime towns from the little navy whicb 
is at the disposal of the National Government. 

This correspondence was sent to Congress in 1812, by President 
Madison, with the following message. 

To the Senate and House of Representatives. 

I lay before Congress copies of certaia documents vrliich remain in the depart- 
ment of Skate. They prove that at a recent period, ■whilst the United States, not- 
•withstandiug the wrongs sustained by them, ceased not to observe the laws of 
peace and neutrality towards Great Britain ; and in the midst of amicable profes- 
Bions and negotiations on the part of the British Gcvernment, through her public 
minister here, a secret agent of that government Avas employed m certain states, 
more especially at the seat of government (Boston) in Massachusetts, in fomenting 
disaffection to the constituted authorities of the nation, and intrigues with the 
disaffected for the purpose of bringing about resistance to the laws ; and eventu- 
ally, in concert with a British force, of destroying the Union and forming the 
eastern part thereof into a political connection with Great Britain. 

In addition to the effect which the discovery of such a procedure ought to 
have on the public councils, it will not fail to render more dear to the hearts of 
all good citizens, that happy union of these states, which, under divine Provi- 
dence, is the guarantee of their liberties, their safety, their tranquility, and 
their prosperity. 

This message and the correspondence was referred to the com- 
mittee on Foreign llelations. The Committee met, and after an 
examination, the authenticity of the papers transmitted, was es- 
tablished beyond question, the signatures of Lord Liverpool, Mr. 
Peel, Sir James Craig, &c., being recognized as genuine. 

A few days after this, the British minister, Honorable A. J. 
Foster, wrote to the Secretary of State, disclaiming all knowl- 
edge of the aiiair and asking that the American Government and 
Congress Avill suspend any further 'judgment ^ntil the circum- 
stances shall have been made known to his majesty's government. 

On the 5th of May, 1812, (notice having been given on the 
28th of April, of this motion, when a discussion took place,) in 
the House of Lords, Lord Holland asked for information on a 
topic of great importance, because it affected the honor of the 
country, and moved that the documents be produced to disprove- 
any agency on the part of the government in the transactions, 
but it was opposed by Lord Liverpool, who excused the Govern- 
ment of Canada as only desiring information, &c. Earl Gray, 
after refering to these excuses said, he would grant that all this 
gave Sir J. Craig a right to assemble troops, to repair fortifica- 
tions, to establish depots, and collect provisions and what was 
necessary for a campaign ; but it did not give him a right to en- 
deavor to seduce American subjects from their allegiance to their 
own country. 

After considerable debate, the motion was lost, the papers 
were not produced, and no apology was made to this Govern- 
ment. 

To show what was thought of this affair in England, the fol- 

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lowing extract from the London Statesman of April 29th, 1812, 
is inserted : 

" It will be seen by the alluaion mrsde last night, in both houses of Parliament 
to the message of Mr. Madison, and the documents accompanying it, laid before 
the Congress of the United States, that the base attempt to subvert the govern- 
ment of that country, by exciting a rebellion amongst the American people, was 
neither attempted to be denied or excused by ministers — but, said Lord Liver- 
pool, ' I solemnly disclaim for myself and for his majesty's government, any in- 
tention whatever, of fomenting disturbances in these States. As to the employ- 
ment of any individual, it was entirely unauthorized by me and even ivithout my 
knowledge. Government did not even know that Captain Henry was employed, 
until after his return to Quebec." Now supposing every word which Lord Liver- 
pool uttered to be true, we would ask why Sir James Craig, on whose shoulders 
ministers now wish to throw the blame of this perfidious transaction, has not 
only been permitted to go at large unimpeached, but has actually been promoted 
in our service? Does not this conduct show, on the part of our Government, 
that they highly approve of every step which that General to&k to overturn the Con- 
stitution of the American States? It is impossible to doubt it; and therefore, 
whatever solemn protestations ministers may now make to the contrary, they 
must be held as implicated in this abominable affair — as those individuals only 
who are responsible to the nation which they have so grossly insulted, and on 
whose heads ought to fall that just retribution for the crime which they have 
committed. But if such are the conclusions we are entitled to draw from this 
relative state of the parties, what are the inhabitants of Great Britain to think ; 
nay, what is the continent, the whole universe, to say if we shall be able to prove 
"by the most undei>iable e\'idence that ministers not only knew of the employ- 
ment of Captain Henry before he was engaged in the iniquitous mission, but that 
Lord Liverpj»ol himself, afterwards actually and unreservedly approved of it ? 
That we are able to do this, we feel little difficulty, even with the few documenta 
which are now before the public. 

It appears that Captain Ileni-y was employed by Sir James Craig in 1808, to 
ascertain the state of parties and their political views in the United States. 
The correspondence which passed at this time between Sir James Craig and the 
Captain, was transmitted by the former to the British minister. This is proved 
by the following extract of a letter, dated 28th of June last, written by Mr. 
Peel, Lord Liverpool's secretary, to Henry himself, who was then in London : 
" His lordship has directed me to acquaint you, that be has referred to the cor- 
respondence in this ofBce of the year 1808, and tinds two letters from Sir James 
Craig, dated 10th April and 5th May, transmitting the correspondence that has 
passed during your residence in the northern states of America, and expressing 
his confidence in your ability and judgment." Here then, is direct proof, that 
the attempts made in 1808, by Captain Henry, at the instigation of the Governer 
General of Canada, to excite commotions in the United States, were well known 
to ministers at that period. Circumstances having rendered it probale in the 
year 1809, that something further might be done to promote this very honorable 
cause, Sir James Craig appears to have had some further communication with 
the present ministers on the subject, and again to have recommended Captain 
Henry as a fit person to carry thei.r views into effect. The result of this was, 
that Sir James directed his secretary to write Captain Hcnr}', on the 26th of 
January, 1809, as follows: "The iuformation and political observations hereto- 
fore received from you, were transmitted by his excellency to the Secretary of 
Slate, who has expressed his particular approbation of them und there is no doubt 
that your able execution of such a mission as I have above suggested, would 
give you a claim not only on the governor-general, but on his majesty's ministers, 
which might eventually contribute to your advantage." Who can doubt, after 
reading this, that all his majesty's ministers, and particularly Lord Liverpool 
then Secretary of State, were fully acquainted with the mission of Captain Honry, 
and that they actually instructed Sir James Craig to hold out to him a reward 
for his services ? But the matter does not rest here. After Captain Henry ar- 
rivsd in London, and submitted his claims for remuneration to Lord Liverpool, 



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bis lordship, in the abovo letter, which ho directed his secretary, Mr. Peel, to 
write, expressly recognizes the services of the captain. He speaks of the " abil- 
ity and success" with which he executed the mission, and states, that "he is 
convinced the public service will be benefitted" by his active employment in a 
public situation. la another letter in the handwriting of Lord Liverpool, ad- 
dressed to Sir George Prevost, now governor-general of Canada, on the IGth of 
September last, he says : " I now fulfil the assurance which I have given of 
stating to you my opinion of the abilit;/ and judgment which jNIr. Henry has mani- 
fested on the occasions mentioned tK the memorial, and of the benefit the public 
service might derive from his active employment in any public situation in which 
you should think proper to place him." Here Lord Liverpool's entire approba- 
tion of all that Captain Henry had done, is fixed beyond the possibility of a 
doubt." 

When the subject was under consideration in Congress, it was 
asserted, that Mr. Erskine, former British Minister, was engaged 
in the same business at the same time. 

The aggressions continued, and both countries were in the 
greatest distress ; meetings were held in Birmingham and other 
manufacturing towns, deprecating the action of the British min- 
istry ; and from Birmingham, a deputation was sent to Mr. Per- 
ceval, (Lord Liverpool,) for the purpose of representing to him 
the distressed condition of the district, and stating that, unless 
something was done, seventy thousand persons would be thrown 
out of employment, and of these, fifty thousand were employed in 
preparing goods for the American market. Mr. Perceval said 
he was fully a\?are of the distressed state of the manufacturers, 
but being as fully convinced of the benefits accruing to the coun- 
try at large from the orders in council, he could not from any con- 
sideration of partial distress alter his opinion. Another of the 
ministry said, after listening to their representations, " it does 
not signify, gentlemen, we are like two men with our heads in a 
bucket of water, and we must see which can stand drowning the 
longest." 

One of the resolutions passed at the meeting at Birmingjiam, 
was this : 

Resolved, That the direct tendency of the orders in council, is 
to force America upon her own resources, and to oblige her to 
become a manufacturing nation much earlier than in the natural 
course of events, would be the case." 

While these things were going on, the Indians in Canada and on 
the frontier of the Western States, were supplied by English emis- 
saries with arms and ammunition and presents of various kinds, to 
induce them to take up arms against the Americans. 

At last, when forbearance ceased to be a virtue, war was de- 
clared. 

There are hundreds alive to-day in the west, who can tell how 
the English agents succeeded in employing the Indians, and how 
faithfully they obeyed. At Maiden, Canada, a bounty was paid 
for scalps, and every encouragement held out to make the Indiana 



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more savage than they would have been. The conduct of Proctor, 
after the battle of the river Raisin, stamps him as an inhuman 
monster or the base hireling of a barbarous government. 

Though the principal ports from New York to Maine were 
blockaded, no attack was made upon New England except at 
Eastport, Maine. 

In the mean time, secession was gaining ground, and as speci- 
mens of the feeling that existed, the following extracts from 
newspapers of that date are sufficient : 

"Salem, August lOlh, 1812. 

"Great Britain has never clone us any injury. We were fools in 177G, and are 
knaves in 1812, for quarrelling with her. She is fighting for the liberties and 
the religion of the world." 

" IIautford, Julu ZOth. 

"It is only by the forbearance of Great Britain, that a single herring is per- 
mitted to enter Chesapeake Bay." 

Secession in the New England States, culminated on the 15th 
of December, 181-1, when the delegates from the several state 
Legislatures met at Hartford, to consider the grievances of the 
people occasioned by a state of war, and to devise speedy meas- 
ures for its termination. The sessions of the convention were se- 
cret, and whatever plans may have been formed for secession or 
disunion, they were rendered abortive by the declaration of peace, 
soon after its adjournment. 

Whenever an opportunity occurred during the war, the Eng- 
lish captured all the slaves they could get, carried them to the 
West Indies, and sold them. 

Emissaries were sent to the south among the Seminole and 
. Creek Indians, to iucite them to hostilities, and among the slaves, 
to induce them to rebel. 

This policy was kept up for several years, and it finally brought 
on the Florida war. The Indians, with runaway negroes, com- 
menced murderous depredations upon the frontier settlements of 
Georgia and Alabama, and when General Jackson went there in 
1818, he found two of these British emissaries whom he caused to 
be executed. 

Henry said : "An unpopular war can alone produce a sudden 
separation of any section of this country from the common head." 

The war ended, leaving the Union stronger than ever; the 
British government therefore proceeded to follow out the other 
course indicated by their secret agent, by encouraging dissentions 
between the North and the South. 

This being a vfork of time, required greater caution as well as 
cunning. To get up a question that would irritate the South and 
conciliate the north, was easily done, as there had already been 
considerable agitation with regard to the slave trade. This waF 
easily accomplished by using the British Association for the abo 



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lition of the slave trade, which held its mcetini^s in the Old Jewry, 
and afterwards in Exeter Hall, London. This was the grand 
fountain head, and still continues to be. Millions of money and 
scores of agents have been| sent from this society to the Uni- 
ted States, where they found people who, Arnold-like, were wil- 
ling for gold, to aid in sowing the seeds of discord'. 

Mr. Seward tells us, that John Q. Adams originated the politi- 
cal anti-slavery movement in this country. 

A living witness. General Da-ff Green, confirms this statement 
and furnishes the following valuable link in the chain of evidence. 
"John Quincy Adams was one of the commissioners at Ghent, 
(in Belgium,) and as such, signed the treaty of peace between the 
United States and Great Britain, the eleventh article of which, 
pledged the United States to unite with England in abolishing 
"the traffic in slaves ;" he was afterwards our minister in London, 
where he was intimate with Clarkson and Wilberforce. In 1816, 
Daniel Pope Cook of Illinois, was appointed bearer of despatches 
to notify him of his appointment as Secretary of State, and told 
me, that upon his return he intended to remove to the South. In 
October of 1817, I saw him in this city, and he then told me that 
he had relinquished his purpose of going South, because Mr. 
Adams had satisfied him that the migration to the Territories 
north of the Ohio would be so great, as soon to enable the 
freo States to control the political . destiny of this country, and 
that instead of going South he was, under the advice of Mr. 
Adams, going back to Illinois, with a view to coming to Con- 
gress for the purpose of agitating the slavery question. He 
said that he had already commenced the agitation by a series 
of letters published in Mead's Register, and handed me a 
pamphlet containing them. These letters, written at the sug- 
gestion of Mr. Adams, give the basis of the anti-slavery agita- 
tion from that date until now. I thus trace this treasonable 
movement to Mr. Adams, for Mr. Cook did go to Illinois, and was 
elected to Congress, and, although it does not so appear on the 
record, was in truth, the person through whom Mr. Adams made 
the movement in opposition to the admission of Missouri, which 
resulted in the Missouri compromise." 

Here a degenerate son of a patriot father, for political prefer- 
ment, listens to the counsels of the bitterest enemies of his coun- 
try, and allows himself to be used as the instrument for his 
country's destruction. 

The people thought the Missouri Compromise had settled the 
question, and it was supposed by the South that she had achieved 
a victory ; a line had been drawn over which the North could not 
come to molest her. W'ith this adjustment of the question she 
was content : and the people of the North, with the exception of 



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a few ultra abolitionists, were willing to abide bj this compromise. 
This, however, was not what the British Government desired. 
Mr. Sumner in his speech of June 4, 1860, in the Senate says : 
*' At a period when the ardors of the Missouri question had given 
way to indifference throughout the North, William Lloyd Garri- 
son stepped forward to denounce it. Afterwrrds, January 1, 
1881, he published the first number of the Liberator, in which he 
* declared, in the face of surrounding apathy, "I am in earnest/' 

Here, even in Boston, a state of indifference and apathy exis- 
ted. Soon after this the country was flooded with circulars, 
handbills, and pamphlets, but the people paid little attention to 
them. Spices and various other articles of family use, put up 
and surrounded with incendiary wrappings, were scattered through 
the South, and every means resorted to that the subject should 
be kept before the people. Does any one suppose that all this 
was done by the handful of abolitionists at the North ? By no 
means ; the case was becoming desperate. Instead of disunion, 
the Union was growing stronger; money was poured into the 
country, and converts were made to abolitionism, but the mass of 
the people remained indifferent. 

Prosperity and abundance were so apparently the growth of 
free institutions, that Canada began to look to the time when she 
too would throw off the yoke. 

In 1833 an act was passed by the British Parliament abolish- 
ing slavery in the British Colonies and appropriating 20,000,000 
pounds sterling, (or $100,000,000) for the purchase of the slaves, 
and to encourage them to take care of themselves.* 

By this act, Canada was made the grand asylum in which pious 
abolitionists established their depot for the under ground rail- 
road. What a burlesque upon morality, for men to rob their 
neighbors, and pretend that it is all for the glory of God. 

A few months ago the London times said ; "for all the good 
that appropriation had done the money had better been thrown 
into the Atlantic ocean," "The negro has been bought with a 
price, the price of English taxation and English toil. He has 
been redeemed from bondage by the sweat and travail of some 
millions of hard working Englishmen. One hundred millions of 
dollars have been distilled from the brains and muscles of the free 
English laborer, of every degree, to fashion the West Indian ne- 
gro into a free and independent laborer. Free and independent 
enough he has become, God knows ; but laborer he is not ; and, 
so far as we can see, never will be." 

Mr. Sidney E. Morse, a gentleman of intelligence and integrity, 

•About $100 was paid to tho owners, for slaves valued at from $1,200 to 
JS 1,500. 



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in the following communication to tho editor of Harper's Weekly, 
gives a clear explanation of the objects of the British Government 
in the West India Emancipation ; 

In the fall of 1853 the writer met in Paris the late Mr. Aaro:n Leggett, for- 
merly a wealthy merchant in this city, and a n^ember of the Society of Friends. 
AVe conTersed freqaently on the political prospects of our country as aiFected by 
the agitation of the Slavery question. Mr. L. said, that v>hen he was a young' 
man, he was an active and zealous member of a Manumission Society, and 
that he continued to cherish in after life a very compassionate feeling for the poor 
negroes. At the time of the general emancipation of the slaves in the British' 
West Indies Mr. Lcggctt's business called him to the city of Mexico, and while 
residing there he met Deputy Commissary-Generat Wilso:^, of the British Army, 
an ageirt appointed by the British Government to make the financial arrangement* 
connected with the payment to the West India slaveholders of their portion of the 
je'20,000,0000 voted by the Uritish Parliament as a compensation for the forced 
sacrifice of their property. 

Mr. LEfiGETT said that, when he learned Mr. Wilson's errand, he took occa- 
sion, while he was sitting with him one day after dinner, to express his admira- 
tion of the British Government and the British people, for that noble act, the 
vote of J;l'0,000,000 sterling, to procure liberty for 800,000 negroes ! He gave 
full utterance to his feelings, and almost exhausted the vocabulary of eulogy to- 
find the commendatory epithets which he applied to England and Englishmen. 

•' Mr. Wilson did not seem to symphathize with me," said Mr. L., " and where 
I had finished, he simply turned to me, and said ''Do- you thin/i, 3Ir. LeggeU, that 
this eviancipntion of the negroes icill prove to be a wise measure T" 

" Certainly I replied," said Mr. L. "^ How can it be otherwise ?" 

" Tho cool heads in England,'^ said Mr. Wilson, '' do not think that it will be' 
.beneficial in its effects on the interests of the people either in the colonies or ia 
the mother country. Nor do I think so. We think that the freed negroes tcill do' 
very little xoork ; and that the West India colonies, as to their commercial value to the 
mother country, will be ruined ?" 

Mr. Leggett had been carried away with the representations of the enthusiatia 
friends of emancipation — that free labor was more productive than slave labor ;; 
that when the negroes were free they would receive wages, and that this would 
stimulate them to raise sugar and cofl'ee in greater quantities ; that commerce 
would feci the benefit of the new impulse to agriculture ; that lands would rise im 
value ; that the income of the planters would be increased, etc. ; and his ardor 
was at first cooled hy Mr. Wilson's gloomy view of the case. 

" After a little reflection, however," said Mr. L., " I continued my eulogy of 
tho British Government and the British people ; and I now went further than be- 
fore in the expressions of my admiration, but I went on a new tack. I said that 
the enemies of Englishmen, and of their government, were accustomed to represent: 
them as always governed by mercenary considerations, and too willing to sac- 
rifice justice, humanity, and all the virtues, to the lust of gain ; but here was Ot 
case in which the cool heads that directed the action of the Government delibe- 
rately burdened their country Avith an inmense debt, not to open new fields of wealth* 
but in full prospect of destroying the commercial value of their West India colo- 
nies, and of impoverishing the people there, and the proprietors in England — and 
all from a humane feeling, and a high sense of justice — a high sense of what is 
due to poor, helples, dowii-troddcn negro slaves. It was the noblest act recorded 
ill liistory ! I knew of no parallel to it anywhere." 

" When I had finished," added Mr. L., " Mr. W. again turned tome, and said,, 
' Mr. Leggett, do you really believe, that the men who control the action of the British 
government were led by such motives as you ascribe to them, to sacrifice the commercial 
interests of their country ?' " 

" I repliid," said Mr. L., " that if the men who controlled the action of the 
British goveniment really believed that the abolition of slavery in the British 
West Indies would end in the commercial ruin of the islands, I could not conceive 
of any other motive for their conduct than the noble one which I had assigned." 

" ' Well Mr. Leggett,' eaid Mr. W., ' you may believe this, but I do not. / 



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helieve thiii (he acfion of the. Britixh gnvcrimient is made to promote, as far as possible, 
the iNTEEESTS of the English Aristocfacy." 

^Ir. L. then asked, " What interest of the English Aristocracy will be promo- 
ted by the ruin of tlie British West India Islands ?" 

Mr. Wilson said that the abolition of slavery in the British colonies would 
naturally create an enthusiastic anti-slavery sentiment in England and America, 
and that in America this would in process of time excite a hostility between the 
free States and the slave States, which would end in a dissolution of the American 
Union, and the consequent failure of the grand experiment of democratic govern- 
ment ; and that the ruin of Democracy in America would be the perpetuation of 
Aristocracy in England. — I do not undertake to give the language of Mr. Leggett, 
but the following paraphrase conveys, in my own language, the impression made 
upon my mind of the course of reasoning by which .Air, W. came to his con- 
clusion. 

"The English Aristocracy have ruled England for ages. Their position is more 
enviable thau that of any similar class in any other country on tlie globe. They 
rule the wealthiest empire in the world. Their laud estates embrace a large 
portion of all the lauds in the kingdom; and these estates are entailed in their 
families. The House of Lords is composed exclusively of the Aristocracy ; and 
they have such influence in the elections that the members of the House of Com- 
mons are to a great extent the near relatives of the Lords. Offices of honor 
and power, and sinecure offices with large incomes, in the Church, the Army, the 
Navy, the Colonies, at Foreign courts, and in all the departments of Home govern- 
ment, are in their gift, and can be bestowed at their pleasure, upon their relatives 
and friends. They have inherited these privileges from their ancestors, and their 
great aim, their ruling desire, is to retain them in their families, and to transmit 
them to their posterity. Their control of the public press, and of all the fountains 
of popular opinion and sentiment in England, has enabled them to impress the 
minds of the great body of the middle classes there with the belief that the English 
Aristocracy, with its powers and privileges, is essential to the prosperity and glory 
of the English nation. 

"Recently, however, this belief has been seriously.shaken by the success of demo- 
cratic institutions in America. Englishmen are now getting to be well aquainted 
with America; and they see there a people of the same race with themselves, speak- 
ing the same language, reading the same books, holding the same religious opinions, 
loving the same pursuits; in short, like themselves in every respect except that 
they have no aristocracy ; and yet, under their democratic institutions, Americans 
are advancing even more rapidly than Englishmen, in commerce and the arts, in 
the diffusion of knowledge among the people, in population, wealth, and all the 
elements of national greatness ; and intelligent men of the middle classes in En- 
gland are beginning to think that Aristocracy, with itsheavy taxation for the sup- 
port of sinecure ofiices, may not be so essential as they have heretofore supposed 
to the prosperity of England; and that the English people would perhaps make more 
rapid progress if they should throw off this burden, by republicanizing or Ameri- 
canizing their institutions. The great danger to the English Aristocracy lies in 
this idea in the minds of the English people ; for, if it should take root and spread, 
it might end in a revolution in which they would lose all their privileges.. Hence 
they study every thing in America and in England with the deepest interest in its 
bearings on this matter. 

" The English Aristocracy know that the English people are a liberty-loving, a 
liberty-vaunting people. They saw with what ease numerously-signed petitions 
for the Abolition of Slavery could be obtained in districts, and among classes, 
where there was no interest to check the current of the popular feeling. They knew . 
that they could have found no difficulty in disposing of such petitions in Parliament 
without granting them, for they could have continued to receive them respectfully, and 
postjyone action upon i/icm e7idlessly, if their interest had required it. But after a 
time they, doubtless, reasoned with themselves, thus : 

" ' What will be the effect of encour.aging and finally granting these petitions ? 
If Slavery shall be abolished in the British colonies, by compensating slaveholders 
for their losses, nobody in England will then have any interest in opposing the 
wildest and most enthusiastic expressions of auti -Slavery sentiment. Englishmen 



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win love to refer with pride and ho.vsting; to the large sum sacrificed by their 
poverntnent, ■with their concurrence, on the altar of liberty, juatice, and human- 
ity. They will then look to Ainericn, and they will see Slavery still there, for 
Sontlicrn s'nvehoMers in Americo, ot course, will never ruin themselves and ♦heir 
country by imitating Britain in abolishing it. Englishmen can then be easily ex- 
cited, omiccouiit of American Slavery, to look down with scorn upnn Americans 
and American institutions; and if any popular orator, or writer, in England shall 
prcipnse to deprive the Aristocracy of their powers and privileges, and, to fortify 
his argument, shall refer to the prosperity of America under democratic institu- 
tioiiH, he will be met with this scorn, and defe-ited in his purpose.' 

" This will be the effect in England of the abolition of Slavery in the British 
coV'nies : but the most important effect will be the effect in America. America 
is divided almost equ^dly between liee States and Slave States; — between States 
in which the negroes are si few that no harm result s fiom their emMncipation, 
and Stites in which Slavery is so deeply rooted that it can not be safely abolished 
without ruin to all classes of the population. In the free States, a tierce anti- 
elavery tci.timent, a bitter hatred nf Slavery and Siavulu'lders, can be excited al- 
most as easily as in England, atid, in process of time, by constantly fannina; tho 
fl.ime, euch a hosii ity can be kindled between the peop'e of the two great sections 
that it will lead to the df-strucuon of the American Union, and tho failure of the 
grand expeiiment of democratic government by men of the Anglo-Saxon race. 
And this fai'ure of Uemocr.icy in America will be a new lease, and a long lease, 
to the English Aristocracy of their powers and piivileges. In short, Mr. Leggett, 
' / believe that the English Aristocracy lent thnr influence to the Abolition of Sluvenj 
VI the British colonies that they viay use it as a wedge for the division of the American 
Union. They dnl it to promote their own interest, to perpetuate their own privileges; 
by the destruction of the Union and prosper ty of democratic Am-nca, and to secura 
their object, they care no more for a (dibt of £20.000,0)0 sterling and the commercial 
ruin of the British West India islands than for the ashes on that cigar you are smo- 
king: " 

In the above sketch, I repeat. I do not profes.? to give the language of Mr. L., 
but h.ive endeavored, in my own language, to convey the impres&ion made upoa 
my mind of the course of reasoning by which Mr. W. came to his conclu.-ijn. 
The words in italics, hnwever, are very ne.irly the words used by Mr. Leggett. 

Wh it struck me as particularly notewhorty in Mr. Leggett's narrative was, 
that bijore the experiment of negro cmanc'palion in the British West Indies had been 
ful'y tried, and while the friends and supporters of the measure professed to believe 
that its ej/'ect would be happy upon those immediate y connected with it, both in the 
i lands and in England, an agent of the British government, who must have had un- 
common opporlunilies for forming a sound judgment in the case, expressed his belief that 
they who comrull d the action of the government knew, rvhen they gave their sanction 
to the meuaure, that there wa-i every reason to expect that it would be calamitous to 
the negroes, to the planters, and to the British people, and knew too that they could 
easily have prevented it, but that they still svpp rted and encouraged it, becjuse it 
would promote the interests of the English Aristocracy, by enabling them tv excite, in 
the free States af America, .•'uch an auti- slavery feeling, as would lead to a division of 
the American Enion, and the desi ruction o* the threat democratic Bep'jblir. 

A constant attendance at the meetings of religious an I philanthmphic societies, 
and especially of atiti slavery meetings, during a residence of four years in London, 
tliuroughly satisfied me that anti-s'avery meetings and esc tements are got up ia 
Englaii I, not for the purpose of a removal, or an aaielioration of the evils of Sla- 
very in any part of the world, hut chiefly, if not exclusively, with a view to keep 
up in the hearts of the English people a hatred of the people and institutions of 
Am> rica. 

And, as to our own country, all who are acquainted with the history of the anti- 
elavery movement here, know that, prior to tl)e Aliolition of Slavery intheBritish 
colonies, the American anti-slavfr-.- mm-ement w.as eminent'y kind, considerate, 
rational, and Christian; that it had itlready hippily effect-'d the gralual but total 
abolition of shivery in all tlie Northern States, and was at the time very active in 
the border Slave States, especially among the slaveholders, who, after individually 

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iBmaucipatlng scores of thousands cf their own slaves uuiteJ whh each other in 
anti-sl;ivery societies to promote the grailual, but eventually total abolition of 
slavery by law in their respective States, with fair prospects of success in Deleware, 
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, and with some hope even in North 
Carolina and Tennessee — the emancipation of the slaves in most of these States 
to go hand in hanil v;ith their removal t3 other lands. It is also well known that 
immediactly after the Abolition of Slavery in the British colonies, anti-slavery 
societies of a totally different character were formed in New England, and that 
these societies were based on the principle of bitter hatred to all slaveholders, and 
a fierce denunciation of the mesures which had been framed, with great conside- 
ration and wisdom, by Southern slaveholders, for the welfare of their slaves, and 
the elevation of the negro race. It is known that the supporters of these New 
England anti-slavery societies established newspapers, issued tracst, employed 
lecturers, and devised plans, evidently intended to irritate Southern men, and 
provoke to acts which would irritate Northern men, and provoke retaliatory act, 
and thus, by continued angry action and reaction, ripen a hostility between tlie 
North and the South, which would naturally end in a dissolution of the American 
Union. This system of hostility has been kept up now for twenty-five years, and, 
with what effect, let the present state of the country answer. 

How much of the large amount of money expended by American Abolitionists in 
support of this organized system of hostility to the Constitution of the United 
States has been contributed in England we know not, but we do know that, while 
onservative Americans have often been publicly and wantonly insulted in England 
in connection with the Slavery question, and without apology where apology was 
due from members of the Aristocracy, other Americans, whose chief claim to no- 
tice was the zi?al and success with which they had attacked a fundamental law of 
their country and promoted bitter strife between the people of its two great sec- 
tions, have been invited to the homes of the English nobility, flattered, honored, 
and encouraged on their return to America to renew their warfare upon the people 
and the institutions of the South. These facts are readily explained on the theory 
of Deputy Commissary-General, Wilson, that the aim of the English Aristocracy 
is to perpetuate their own power and privileges by destroying the great American 
democratic republic, and they can not, we think, be satisfactorily explained on 
any other theory. 

SIDNEY E. MORSE. 

The fear of losing Canada was an incentive to more vigorous 
action. If a continual broil could be kept up in the States, the 
Canadians would be better satisfied with their condition. Money 
was supplied to send lecturers over the Middle and Western 
States, but the people would not listen. Churches, school-houses, 
and all other public places were closed to them. And if an at- 
tempt was made to speak in the street or a public square, the 
speaker was, in scores of places, pelted with rotten eggs, and in 
some instances he was obliged to submit to a coat of tar and 
feathers or a ride upon a rail. 

Did these things stop the work ? Not at all. Those engaged 
in it were too well paid to allow trifles to stand in the way. What 
did they care for the Union, or the peace and tranquility of the 
people. 

Eighteen hundred and thirty-seven found the people of Canada 
resolved to cut loose from the British throne. By a want of con- 
cert in the leaders they failed, and were denounced as traitors. 
While this excitement was at its heighth, long and angry dis- 
putes about the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick 



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ripened into warlike demonstrations, and preparations were macfe 
to settle the matter by combat. 

England finding sbe could not breakup or cripple our com- 
merce or bring about a dissolution of the Union alone, called to 
her aid the Catholic powers of Europe, France, Austria, Russia, 
and Prussia ; and in December, 1841, the Quintuple treaty was 
signed at London by representatives from each of these powers, 
granting a mutual right of search. This treaty was ostensibly to 
suppress the slave trade, but who docs not see that it was aimed 
at the United States ? 

The boundary between Maine and New Brunswick was finally 
settled by the Ashburton treaty in 1842. This treaty provides 
for the final suppression of the slave trade, and contains the only 
extradition clause that could ever be obtained from England, and 
that is in cases of certain crimos. Through the want of such a 
treaty, our citizens have lost millions of money ; not only by fugi- 
tive slaves, but by dishonest debtors. 

Then came the question for the admission of Texas, when the 
North, forgetting the Missouri Compromise, sprung upon Con- 
gress the Wihnot proviso, and again a storm arose, the North op- 
posed the annexation because it would increase the area and po- 
litical strength of slavery. This question was decided by the 
people in electing to the presidency, Mr. Polk, who was pledged 
in favor of annexation. 

England, still bent upon getting up a subject of strife, laid 
claim to a large part of Oregon : this was finally settled by a 
treaty, in which she got the lion's share. 

In 1850, when California asked for admission, another storm 
came up which shook the Union to its centre, another compro- 
mise was resorted to, and the people rejoiced that a vexed ques- 
tion was finally disposed of. Then Mrs. vStowe came to the res- 
cue of the British party with Uncle Tom's Cabin, a tissue of 
misrepresentations Avhich enlisted the sympathies of the whole 
North, Before this, the abolition or anti-slavery sentiment was 
comparatively limited in its extent. This book was read by every 
body. Mrs. StoAvo being the daughter of a clergyman and the 
wife of another, her statements were swallowed by the people, as 
truth. 

The Kansas and Nebraska bill, which was intended by its fra- 
mers to affirra the compromise act of 1850, again set the whole 
nation in an uproar. Ministers who were ordained to preach the 
gospel, preached anti-slavery. And no class of nien have done 
more to bring about the present condition of affairs than these 
same ministers, who, under the garb of preaching " Christ and 
Ilim crucified" have been step by step inflaming the public mind 
of the North against the Institutions of the South, and those laws 



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that liave been enacted by our National Legislature for the pro- 
tection of the rights of the citizens of the southern half of our re- 
public. Instead of following the example set them by Jesus 
Christ and the founders of the Church, or the teachings of that 
Book wiiich tliev pretend to follow, they have, Avhilst performing 
their ministerial duties with an air of sanctity, put a new inter- 
pretation upon the Scriptures and taught their followers, that an 
observance of those laws which recognise slavery, is a heinous sm, 
and that the requirements of the " higher law" demanded from 
all believers in the Bible, their violation.* 

Forbes and Bedpath, two violent abolitionists, were sent from 
En.o-land to manage Kansas affairs, and thus to foment a civil war 
which threatened to involve the whole country. 

About this time a new party was formed professing to have 
nothing in common with the Abolition party or its doctrines. 
Though the anti-slavery hobby was mounted, the leaders intended 
to ride it in the territories only. 

The visit of the Price of Wales to this country Avas proposed 
by those who believed in an "irrepressible conflict," and know- 
ing if it did come, there would be a dissolution of the Union- — 
then the old plan could be accomplished of uniting Canada v/ith 
the New England States. These, with the Middle and Western 
States, are to form that magnificent empire stretching from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific, with the Prince of Wales as the sovereign. 
You ask how the Prince of Wales is to become the sovereign of 
the North and West, the answer is, by the request of the people. 
The hope is to get the two sections into a war. And if this is 
accomplished, such a war will be waged as the world has never 
seen. Whether it will be a seven year's war or one of thirty 
years, neither section will give up until they are in the hands of 
some other power. The South may call upon France, and the North 
upon England. For this, her forty-five million appropriation 
was made, and not to defend herself against an invasion by France 
as was given out. 

The mission of Mr. Lindsay v»as made with the same end in 
view — to ask that our coasting trade should be throAvn open to 
England that she might have a force on our coast ready for any 
emergency. 

Enough has been said to lead the reflecting mind to ponder 
seriously on the means which ought to be adopted to defeat the 
machinations of the English government. Let us now turn to 
the other branch of the subject, and consider the schemes which 
the Jesuits have been employing with a similar design. 

* We wish to bo entirely undcistooil here, ■when we speak of a. class. It ia 
well know that there have been many boni.rable exceptions of those who have 
seen the tccdency of this teaching and have warned their hearers against it. 



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The advent of Christ established the christian religion. The 
system at the first, was represented by a siaiple association of 
men possessing the same faith and opinions, the same sentiments 
; nd feclinjTs. 

In the fourth century, Christianity was no longer a simple be- 
lief, it was an institution. Under the protection of Constantino 
the Great, the church had been formed into a corporate body with 
rules and regulations devised by men, and it was fallible, as all 
human governments ever have been and ever will be. We need not 
wonder then that it became corrupt, and in the eleventh century 
claimed supreme dominion, both temporal and spiritual, over all 
the States of Christendom. At the close of this century, the Cru- 
sades wero undertaken to diivc the infidels or Mohammedans 
from Jerusalem and the Holy Land. 

The beginning of the thirteenth century found the power of the 
I'opc supreme. Home mistress of the world, and kings and em- 
perors her vassals. 

The Crusades undertaken to augment this power, closed with 
this century. Their influence was great — expanding the mind of 
Europe, refining the general mannerse, xciting a spirit of geog- 
raphical research and adventure, and promoting improvement in 
the arts and sciences, thus undermining instead of strengthening 
the power of papal Rome, by advancing liberal ideas and freedom 
of thought. 

Supreme power was too valuable to be relinquished without an 
effort to retain it, and to this end resort was had to means lawful 
and unlawful. 

The cliurua had become so corrupt, that a hundred complaints 
and aceusa'iions wero preferred against it at the Diet of Nurem- 
berg, whieli Adrian VI acknowledged to be too well founded. 

This pontiff, by his nuncio, frankly declared to the Diet : "that 
all this confusion was originated by men's sins, and, above all, by 
those of the clergymen and prelates — that for many years past 
the IIoli/ Sec had committed many abominations — that numerous 
abuses had crept into the administration of spiritual affairs, and 
many superfluities into the laivs — that all had been perverted — 
and that the corruption descending from the head to the body, 
from the Sovereign Pontiff to the prelates was so great, that there 
could hardly be found any one who did good." 

Such was the condition of the Church when the Reformation 
commenced. Nicolini, a protestant writer, says: '' While the 
Word of God was rescuing multitudes from idolatry, the Spirit 
of Evil, furious at the escape of so many victims whom he 
had already counted his own, made a desperate effort to retrieve 
his past and prevent future lo;-^ses. He saw, with dismay. Divine 
truth, like a vast and ever extending inundation rapidly under- 



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mining and throwing down one by one his many strong-holds of 
superstition and ignorance 5 and, with the despairing energy of 
baffled malignity, he set aboiit rearing up a bulwark which should 
check the tide ere its work of destruction was completed. For 
this bulwark, he devised the since famous order of the Jesuits, 
>vhich arose almost simultaneously with the establishment of the 
Reformation." 

The Society of Jesus was established expressly to exterminate 
Protcstanism. And every means is justified, that is made use of 
to convert or destroy heretical protestants. 

The bull or proclamation of Paul III, establishing the society, 
gays: " Whereas, we have lately learned that our beloved son, 
Ignatius de Loyola (and nine others whose names follow,) in- 
spired, as is piously believed by the Holy Ghost; coming from 
various regions of the globe ; are met together and become as- 
sociates ; and renouncing the seductions of this world, have dedi- 
cated their lives to the perpetual service of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, and of UB and of our s2icee8Sors Roman Pontiffs; and 
expressly for the instruction of hoys and other ignorant people 
in Christianity, and, above all, for the spiritual consolation of 
the faithful in Christ by hearing confessions. 

Had they adhered to the principles they professed in the out- 
set, and merely aimed at civilizing and converting savages and 
increasing knowledge at home, the institution would have been as 
justly praised for good achieved through it, as it is now de- 
nounced for ambition, avarice, cruelly, and corruption. 

The society is composed of a general, subordinate officers, and 
members. The officers and members vow implicit obedience to 
the general. 

Ignatius Loyola, the first general, while aifecting acts of hu- 
mility, was giving his serious attention to the state affairs of dif- 
ferent nations, his desciples were sent all over the world, and in- 
stead of attending to religion as their business, they have made it 
a cloak under which they have meddled with the political affairs 
of the people. At different times they have been driven out of nearly 
every country on the globe. The Order, at first limited to sixty 
members, was afterwards extended and has become unlimited, 
and so formidable as to control the church. It had become such 
a nuisance in various countries, that in 1773 it was suppressed by 
Clement XIV, who said the members of the society hud-merited 
their fall from the restlessness of their spirit and the audacity of 
their proceedings. In the two centuries the society had existed, 
it had so disturbed the peace of Europe, that thirty-seven states 
had suppressed it before the Pope did so. A few extracts from 
the Bull which abolished the order, are all that need be given to 
show the estimation in which they were held. 



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In tlie preamble or explanation of the right of a Pope to estab- 
lish and abolish orders in the church, he says : *' We know, be- 
sides that we are established b?/ Divine Providence, over King- 
doms a7id Nations, in order to pluck up, destroy, disperse, dissi- 
pate, plant, or nourish, as may best conduce to the right cultiva- 
tion of the vineyard of Sabaoth. After a complete examination 
into the origin and progress of the society, " we have seen that 
the holy founder of the order did institute it for the salvation of 
souls, the conversion of heretics and infidels, and in short, for the 
greater advancement of piety and religion*" After enumerating 
the privileges granted the society by other Popes, he says: 
*' Notwithstanding so many and so great favors, it appears from 
apostolic constitution, that almost at the very moment of its in- 
stitution, there arose in the bo-om of this societ}', divers seeds of 
discord and dissension, not only among the companions them- 
selves, but with other regular orders, the secular clergy, the acad- 
emies, the universities, the public schools, and lastly, even with 
the princes of the states in v,'hich the society v/as received." 
Here follow some of the causes for dissension, &c. "In short, 
accusations of the gravest nature and very detrimental to (he 
peace and tranquility of the christian republic have been co7itinu- 
ally received against the said order. Ilence the origin of that 
infinity of appeals and protests against this society, which so many 
sovereigns have laid at the foot of the throne of our predecessors, 
Paul IV., Pius v., and Sixtus V. 

"The accusations against the society were multiplied without 
number, and especially with that insatiable avidity of temporal 
possessions with which it was reproached."* 

" The kings of France, Spain, Portugal, and Sicily, found 
themselves reduced to the necessity of expelling and driving from 
their states and kingdoms and provinces these very companions of 
Jesus ; pursuaded that there remained no other remedy to so 
great evils, and that this step was necessary, in order to prevent 
the christians from rising one against another, and from mas- 
sacrceing each other in the very bosom of our common mother, the 
holy Church." This brief was issued in July, 1773, and on the 
22d of September, 1774, the Pope died from the effects of slow poi- 
son. 

The Jesuits have always said that Clement was forced into the 
measure, but this did not save him from their poison. 

A few years before this, Benedict XIV, in a terrible bull which 
he issued against them, said they were disobedient, contumaciouSy 
crafty, arid reprobate men. 



* As a specimen of this, Bishop Ffughes holds for the the church in New York 
city, property to the amount of $25,000,000. 



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When iliey were snpnressed and driven from Rome, tliey took 
refuge in Prussia and in Russia, where they were welcomed ag 
teachers of youth. Nicolini says: ''No pages of ours could con- 
vey to our readers a more accurate idea of the conduct of the 
Jesuits in Russia, than a passage of the imperial decree, by which 
Alexander expelled them from his capital in 1815." 

After having recorded that while the Jesuits were persecuted 
in the rest of Europe, Russia alone, from a spirit of humanity and 
tolerance, had received and protected them. He then enumerates 
the acts of base ingratitude they displayed in stirring up dissen- 
sions, &c., in his dominions, and " after such actions we are no 
more surprised that these monks are expelled from all countries 
and no where tolerated. Where in fact is the state that would 
tolerate in its bosom those who sow in it hatred and discord? 

In 1814, the Order was re-established. And in 1849, catholic 
Italians drove them from Rome. 

According to the rules of the Order, no Jesuit is permitted to 
mix in any way in political or secular matters, or engage in any 
commercial operations. Notwithstanding these rules, they dis- 
pose of the destinies of kingdoms almost at their pleasure, and 
some of them are among the largest bankers in Eu'^ope. Instead 
of punishing them for these transgressions, the most skilful poli- 
ticians are raised to the important offices in the society. 

This glance at the history of the Jesuits has been given to show 
who and what they are. Ever since the establishment of the 
Order, and in all countries, they have been distinguished by 
an insatiable thirst for power; and while they have so often 
been denounced by the catholic Church for their misdeeds, yet 
they have succeeded in controlling the policy of that Hierar- 
chy to a great extent, and have so far identified themselves 
with the church as to be enabled to shelter their nefarious de- 
signs under the cloak of religion. Our purpose is not to attack 
any system of religious faith, but to point out the dangers to 
which we, as a people, are exposed from this secret organization. 

It is a police infinitely more exact and better informed than 
has ever been that of any State. This police, this secret inqui- 
sition carried to such a degree of perfection, may give some idea 
of the strength of a government, so well informed, so persevering 
in its projects, so powerful by its unity, (and as the constitutions 
have it,) hy the union of its members. It is not hard to under- 
stand, Avhat immense force must belong to the heads of this so- 
ciety, and how the General of the Jesuits could say to the Duke 
de Brissac : " From this room sir, I govern not only Paris, 
BUT Ciii:^;a, not only China, but the whole world — and that 
without any one knowing how it is done.'' 

They arc now and have been for years, aiding the English 



government in destroying the Union. England is so bent upon 
checking the tide of Democracy or Republicanism, that she can- 
not see the viper she is fostering to her own destruction. 

Ask the most ignorant Roman catholic if he believes this coun- 
try will ever become subject tO' the Church? he will answer at 
once, "yes, this country belongs to the catholics — -it was dis- 
covered by Columbus, who was a catholic, and the means to fit 
out his vessels for discovery, were furnished by the sale of Isabel- 
la's jewels, who was a catholic, therefore, it of right belongs to the 
catholics ;" besides, catholics maintain that France and Spain 
took possession of America in the name of the Church, and the 
Jesuits teach in the confessional and in their schools, that the 
" Plymouth Rock Pilgrims were a band of robbers and pirates, 
who fled from Europe to America on account of crimes committed 
against the government of papal England." "Soon other sects 
cast their scum on the same shores, and protestantism gained 
sovereignty in the Thirteen colonies which were destined to be- 
come the United States. Yet the catholic Church could never 
abandon the invaded territory. 

These being the sentiments of the Church, do not imply a conspi- 
racy against the Government. 

Professor Morse says: " What concurrence of circumstances, 
aside from confession of the plot, is sufficient to prove conspi- 
racy ?" 

Is not the case proved if it can be shown ? — 
1st. That there exists an adequate motive to conspire. 
2d. That there exists ample means wherewith to conspire. 
3d. That means capable of accomplishing the object of conspi- 
racy are actually employed by those whose interest it is to con- 
spire. 

No one in the case before us can expect a confession from 
the conspirators ; (though, in the case of England, we have the 
confession of Henry,) let us have recourse then to the test pro- 
posed : 

1st. Have Austria and the Holy Alliance an adequate motive 
/or conspiring against the liberties of the United States ? Can 
there boa sti'onger motive than that o^ self preservation ? So 
certain as this country exists in prosperity under its present demo- 
cratic form of government, just so certain will its example oper- 
ate on the people of Europe, as it has for two centuries operated, 
and is now in an accellerated degree operating to subvert the 
ancient oppressive systems of government of the old world. The 
strongest motive, therefore, that can influence governments as 
well as individuals, that of self preservation, impels Austria and 
the other despots of Europe to seek, 5^ ant/ means in their 
power, the subversion of this government 
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2(1. Have they the means to conspire? No one can doubt 
that the usuarmeans of conspiracy, money and intrigueing agents 
are perfectly at the command of those governments which can 
lavish their millions for the sole purpose of protecting their 
thrones, and which keep in their pay for this vital object, stand- 
ing armies, and a police of tens of thousands of spies. 

od. Have they then employed, or are they actually employ- 
ing means capable of accomplishing their object in this country? 

Austria, in a combination with other powers, called the St. 
Leopold Foundation, has sent and is still sending both moneg and 
agents to this country; the former comes in the shape of religious 
contributions to this St. Leopold Foundation, the society in Vi- 
enna, established with express 7'eferenee to operations in the 
United States ; the latter come the same quarter, in the shape of 
hundreds of Jesuits ; a class of men notorious for their intrigue 
and political arts, and who have a complete military organization 
througrh the United States. The catholic religion is the cloak 
which covers the design. 

All the circumstances therefore necessary to prove conspiracy, 
concur in fixing this charge upon Austria and her associates in 
that umo7i of christian princes combined in the >St. Leopold 
Foundation J' 

^ In 1828, Frederick Schlegel delivered a course of lectures in 
Vienna, going to show the mutual support which popery and 
monarchy derive from each other. He represented protestantism 
as the enemy of good government, as the ally of republicanism, 
as the parent of the distresses of Europe, as the cause of all the 
disorders with which legitimate governments are afflicted. In 
one oi" his lectures he thus speaks of this country : " The true 
NURSERY of all these destructioe princip)les, the revolutionary 
SCHOOL for France and the rest of Europe, has been North 
America. Thence the evil has spread over many other lands, 
either hg natural contagion or hy arbitrary communication. 

The result of tliese lectures was the combination of the catho- 
lic powers of Europe for the express purpose of extending popery 
over these United States, and in time of building up or establish- 
ing monarchies, through the St. Leopold Foundation. 

To induce the people of Europe to become members of this 
organization, the pope, in his letter approving of the society, 
promises indulgencies for fourteen days in the year. 

" Indulgencies were for the pardon of sins, and were sometimes 
so extensive as to be for the past, present, and to come. They 
were written upon parchment, and sealed and signed by the Pope 
or his delegates." 

That the object of this society is to subvert this government, 
we have, among other testimonies, the following by the Duke of 



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Riclnnond, formerly governor of the Canadas, who said in a speccli 
at Montreal : " The Government of the United States ought not to 
stand, and it will not stand, but it will be destroyed by subver- 
sion and not by conquest. The plan is this : to send over the 
surplus population of Europe. They will go over with foreign 
views and feelings, and will form a heterogenous mass, and in the 
course of time will be prepared to rise and subvert the govern- 
ment." He then adds : " The Church of Rome has a design 
upon that country. Popery will in time be the established re- 
ligion, and will aid in the destruction of that republic. I have 
conversed with many of the sovereigns and princes of Europe ; 
and they have unanimously expressed their opinions relative to 
the Government of the United States, and their determination 
to subvert it." 

^^ The M-eemans Journal" says: "The Pope of Rome has 
supreme authority over every diocese and over every square foot 
of surface on this"^globe." The United States is divided into forty- 
one dioceses, Avith thirty-nine bishops and two apostolic vicars, and 
some two thousand priests. The bishops and most of the priests are 
foreigners, sent here as agents for this foreign organization ; they 
serve their time, and if they are successful in the cause, they are 
recalled and promoted. These men have no love for our govern- 
•ment or institutions, as a few extracts from their letters will show : 
Bishop Flaget of Bardstown, Kentucky, in a letter to his pa- 
trons abroad, speaking of the difficulties in converting the Indians, 
says the last difficulty Ys I " their continual traffic among the whites, 
which cannot be hindered as long as the republican govern- 
ment SHALL SUBSIST." Mr. Baraga of Michigan, in giving an ac- 
count of some persons who vefused to have their children baptized, 
lays the fault on this too free government, 

""The Catholic Telegraph," in commenting upon the mob who 
burnt the Convent at Charlestown, Massachusetts, says : " A sys- 
tem of government which admits a feeling of alarm in the execu- 
tion of the laws, from the vengeance of the mob which Mr. Aus- 
tin, (the prosecuting attorney.) distinctly allows to be the case — 
a vengeance exhibited by letters to the public officers, and threats 
to the public authorities— may be very fine in the theory, very 
fit for imitation on the part of those who seek the power of 
the mob in contradistinction to justice and the public interest, 
but is not of a nature to invite the- reflecting part of the 
world, and shows at least that it has evils. A public officer 
in England, Avho would publicly avow such a fear of executing his 
duty and carrying into eflcct the law of the realm, ought and 
would be thrust out of office by public opinion. This one fact 
is condemnation Of the system of American institutions, con- 
lirmcd lately by numerous other proofs. Such comments came 



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with a very good grace, after some of these same citizens were 
threatened by the mother superior of the convent, with a mob of 
20,000 Irishmen, whom she said the Bishop had under his con- 
trol. 

The greatest fault which they find with this government, is the 
religious liberty enjoyed. In the letters of an independent irish- 
man addressed to Bishop Fitzpatrick, the following passage is 
found: says Bishop Kendrick: "No faith with heretics ;" and, 
says Bishop O'Connor of Pittsburg:' "Religious liberty ia 
merely endured until the opposite can be carried into execution 
without peril to the Catholic world." This bigoted sentiment is 
the same in kind with that quoted from the Catholic Review, " no 
rights for Protestants or any body else except Catholics." Fine 
docti-ine for a republic ! Of precisely the same nature was the 
sentiment lately uttered by the Bishop of St. Louis : " Catho- 
licity will one day rule America, and then religious liberty is at 
an end.'' 

To show what they mean by religious liberty, we make a quo- 
tation from the London Rambler : " Religious liberty, in the 
sense of a liberty possessed by every man to choose his own re- 
ligion, is one of the most wicked delusions ever foisted upon this 
age by the father of all deceit. The very name of liberty^ ex- 
cept in the sense of a permission to do ceriain definite acts, ought 
to be banished from the domain of religion. It is neither more 
nor less than a falsehood. JSo man has a right to choose his re- 
ligion. None but an atheist can uphold the principles of religious 
liberty. Shall I, therefore, fall in with this abominable delusion ? 
Shall I foster that damnable doctrine, that Socinianism and Cal- 
vinism and Anglicanism and Judaism are not, every one of them, 
mortal sins like murder and adultery ? Shall I hold out hopes 
to my erring protestant brother; that I will not meddle with his 
creed if he will not meddle with mine? Shall I tempt him to for- 
get that he has no more right to his religious views 1:han he has to 
my purse, or my house, or my life blood ? No. Catholicism is 
the most intolerant of creeds. It is intolerance itself; for it is 
the truth itself. We might as rationally maintain that a sane 
man has a right to believe that two and two do not make four, 
as this theory of religious liberty. Its impiety is only equalled by 
its absurdity." 

This was republished .and endorsed in some of the Catholic pa- 
pers here. Bishop Kenrick says: "Heresy and unbelief are 
CRIMES ; that is the whole of the matter. And in christian coun- 
tries, as in Italy and Spain for instance, where ail the people are 
catholic and where the Catholic religion is an essantial part of the 
law of the land, they will be punished as other crimes." Another 
Bishop savs : 



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Protestantism of every kind, Catholicity inserts in her cata- 
logue of mortal sins ; she endures it when and where she must ; 
bnt she hates it, and directs all her energies to effect its destruc- 
tion. If the Catholics ever gain, which they surely will do, an 
immense numerical majority, religious freedom in this country ia 
at an end.*' 

Are Americans ready for this state of affairs ? if they are, there 
are some other things that will have to be taken into the account. 
Popery does nor acknowledge the right of the P'-opIe to govern ; 
but claims for itself tiie supreme right to govern all people, and 
all rulers, by divine right. 

It does not tolerate the liberty of the press; it takes advantage 
indeed' of our liberty of the press to use its own press against our 
liberty, but it proclaims in the thunders of the Vatican, and with 
a voice which it pronounces infallible and unchangeable, that it is 
a liberty never sufficiently to be execrated and detested." 

Liberty of conscience is denouncad as a most pestilential error, 
and liberty of opinion " a pest of all others most to be dreaded in 
a state." 

It is not responsible to the people in its financial matters. It 
taxes at will, and is accountable to none but itself. 

These are the political tenets held by catholics in close union 
with their religious belief, yet these are not religious, but civil 
tenets ; they belong to despotic government. 

Lafayette knowing by the history of his own country the dan- 
gers of this insidious foe warned us in these words : — American 
liberty can be destroyed only by the Popish clergy." 

Tiie Ilomish Hierarchy declares to the people of the United 
States the following determination, through its chief organ in our 
country '"'■ Brownson s Review" "The church is a kingdom and a 
power, and us such must have a supreme chief (pope), and this 
authority is to be exercised over States as well as individuals. If 
the pope directed the Romanc atholics of this country to overthrow 
tho Constitution (and put down the American flag) sell the natio- 
nality of the country, and annex it as a dependent province to 
Napoleon the Little (a papist sovereign) they would be bound to 
obey. It is the intention of the Pope to possess this coun- 
try." 

When most protestants read these things, they will say no ! the 
Pope can never control this country, they are numerically too weak. 
Let us see how weak they are. They boast that they hold the 
balance of power now, and have done so for years. 

In 1841, Bishop Hughes, in effect, offered the Roman catholic 
vote for sale at Carroll Hall in the city of New York, if the 
Bible would bo excluded from the public schools. 



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Afterwards for the same vote, the public funds were divided and 
they now educate their children in separate schools. 

In 1852, the battle ground for the presidency being Pennsyl- 
vania, and the Catholic vote the balance between the two parties, 
it was of vast importance where it was thrown. General Pierce 
was reported as opposed to Catholics holding, office arid of course 
he could not have it unless he declared for them. Ho did not 
answer their letter of inquiry and it was decided that General Scott 
should have the vote. Such was the determination when James 
Campbell went to the Western part of the State and took the stump 
for Pierce, he was elected, and James Campbell was rewarded by 
a seat in the Cabinet. This was a direct insult to the protestants 
of Pennsylvania, as only a few months before, this same James 
Campbell had been defeated as a candidate for supreme Judge, 
because he was a catholic. 

They were so elated wdth success in the election, they thought 
they could accomplish the grand object with regard to the 
schools. 

In the winter of 1852 and 1853, a simultaneous movement was 
made in several of the States to abolish the Bible in the public 
schools or to divide the school fund. In Michigan they, went so 
far as to threaten the Legislature. In Maryland, they declared 
that they would not give up until it was accomplished. 

In 1854, Bedini was sent here as Nuncio. In the letter of the 
pope to the president he says, " in as much as we have been en- 
trusted by Divine commission with tlie care of the Lord's Jiock 
throughout the world, we cannot allow this opportunity to pass 
without earnestly entreating you to extend your protection to the 
catholics, in habiting those regions, and to shield them at all 
times with your power and authority." 

Bedini came here 'expecting to be recognized as a Nuncio or 
Diplomatic representative of the Church ; had this been done, he 
■would have established the " court for spiritual affairs," which is 
nothing more nor less than the Inquisition. This would have 
brought into use the prisons and dungeons that are built under 
the Cathedrals all over the country. Not quite certain of the 
success of the mission, it was given out that he was on his way to 
Brazil, and merely came this way to compliment the President, 
in the name of the Pope. This was a Jesuitical loop-hole to get 
out in case of failure. Another part of Bedini's mission was, to 
establish the Society of the San Fidesti. The emblems of this 
society are destruction and death. A part of the oath taken by 
its members, is this : " I swear to defend myself in the cause 
which I have embraced, never to spare a single individual belong- 
ing to the infamous combination of the Liberals, whatever may be 



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his bivtli, parentage, or fortune, and to have no pity for tlie cries 
of children, nor of old men or women, and to slied the blood of 
the Liberals even to the last drop, without regard to age, sex or 
rank. Finally, I swear implacable hatred to all the enemies of 
our Holy Roman Catholic religion, one and true." An emble- 
matical card of this society here has on it the American flag and a 
liand grasping an instrument aimed at it. 

The daggers, poniards, and bowie knives used by these holy 
societies, arc blessed by the Bishop or priest before they are used. 

The Know-nothing party which sprung up about this time, is 
said to have been a Jesuitical ruse, gotten up for the purpose of 
creating a sympathy in favor of the church; because the church 
thrives by persecution. The fate of the party leads to the be- 
lief that this may bo true, for a genuine American party would 
not have become the corrupt thing that it did in its ephemeral 
existence. The Democratic party Avith its accustomed zeal, took 
up the cause of the oppressed church, and annihlated the Know- 
nothing party. For this service, and a hundred thousand dol- 
lars added to it, the Catholic vote was given to the Democratic 
party in 185(5. 

A further history of the manner in which the Church has exer- 
cised power over political aftairs since 1850. would involve indi- 
viduals, and this is not our purpose. Sufficient has been given to 
show that if they are numerically weak, they make use of their 
strength to control in a measure, political affairs. Many persons 
express surprise at the comparative ease with which Catholics 
sometimes obtain offices and appointments, while Protestants 
can do nothing. An extract from the secret instructions to 
the Jesuits, will explain to a certain extent, how this is done: 

Chapter II treats of the way to become familiar with the Great 
of any country : "You must manage to get the ear of those in 
authority, and then secure their hearts, by which way all persons will 
become our creatures, and none will dare to give the society dis- 
quiet." "The priests are to wink at the vices of the powerful, and 
, to encourage their inclinations whatever they may be, but this 
is to be done in generals, always avoiding particulars." Sect. 4 : 
" It will further us in gaining favor if our members artfully 
worm themselves by the interest of others into iionorable em- 
bassies to foreign courts in their behalf, but especially to the Pope 
and great monarchs. Further, great care must be taken to curry 
favor with the minions of the great, who, by small presents and 
many offices of piety, we may find means to get faithful intelli- 
gence of the master's inclinations and humors, and thus be better 
qualified to chime their tempers." 

"In confessing, noblemen seem to have nothing in view but 
God'9 glory ; but by degrees, and sensibly to be directed towards 



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political or secular dominion, but in a solemn manner, affirm that 
the administration of public affairs is what we, with reluctance, 
interfere with." Care should be taken to lay before them the 
virtues persons should be furnished with, who are to be admitted 
into public employ, not forgetting slyly to recommend to them 
such as are sincere friends of our order." 

"Wherefore, let the confessors and preachers be informed by 
our friends, of persons proper for every office, and, above all, of 
such as are our benefactors, and whose names let them care- 
fully keep by them, that when proper opportunities occur, they 
may be palmed upon the prince or government by the dexterity 
of our members or agents." 

By such means, we plainly discover how Protestants and Jesuits 
co-operate in the United States, and why leading political men 
bend and fall before their supremacy at the ballot box. This bal- 
lot box which we boast is the palladium of our liberties, is thus 
prostituted by dishonest and corrupt politicians of all parties, who 
would sell their country for a railroad grant, or the liberties 
of the people forever, provided they could get control of the 
government for the term of four years ! 

There is a society in Europe called the Christian League, orga- 
nized for " the circulation of the Holy Scriptures ; for the advo- 
cacy of human rights and to give to all nations religious liberty." 
Against this society the present Pope issued a bull declaring that 
*' all those who enroll themselves in such societies, or who presume 
to aid or abet them in any way, are guilty of a most grievous sin 
before God and the Church." "It is your duty to remove from 
the hands of the faithful (all) Bibles translated into the vulgar 
tongue. We especially reprobate the aforesaid Christian League, 
it he'mgtheir determination to give to all nations, religious liberty." 

Another society, embracing nearly all the wealthy Roman 
Catholics of Europe, has been organized, with the express design 
of establishing Roman Catholic Colonies in our Western States. 
London is its head-quarters, but it has branches in almost every 
capital in Europe. 

The prospectus of this society, proves clearly that its objects 
and designs are : 

1st To provide the means for colonizing the surplus Roman 
Catholic population of Europe in our Western States. 

2d. To do this in. such a manner as to create a large demand 
for articles of European manufacture. 

3d. To make Romanism the predominant religion of the United 
States. 

In connection with this pamphlet, the society also published a 
map of North America, showing the proposed field of Papal occu- 
pancy and ultimate ascendency. This field comprises the States 



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of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, together 
with Canada West. 

Protestant Americans may think of such a map as they do of some 
of our western cities which look very well on paper, but can never 
be built up. But who will deny that the West is rapidly oeina-; 
settled by a foreign Cath;,..o population, acknowledging the Popo 
as their head. They come here, declare their intention of be- 
coming citizens, take the oath of allegiance, and in six months, in 
most of the western States, have all the political rights that a na- 
tive citizen has. 

This oath of allegiance by the way, is taken with a reservation 
in favor of the Pope. The Jesuits direction for such an oath is 
this : " When we begin for instance, to say I swear (then in the 
proper place insert in a subdued tone, the mental restriction,) then 
conclude in the same loud voice ; for thus the whole speech is 
true." 

" Land for the landless," is one of the schemes that will aid in 
building up this power. Free farms to those who are colonized 
by these societies, will enable them to advance their interests to 
almost any imaginable extent. 

Another kingdom is to be formed of Pennsylvania, New York, 
the New England States,' and Canada East. Americans, do you 
believe this ? if not, read the following from the London Ramb- 
ler concerning the increase of Romish power in the United 
States : " Churches, schools, seminaries, colleger, religious com- 
munities, bishoprics and arch-bishoprics are rising as if by enchant- 
ment, in all parts of the republic. In the archi-episcopal province 
of New York, at the present time (1858,) there are over eight 
hundred churches and nearly one million of Catholic souls. The 
city of New York, which, twenty years ago could number but 
seven, can now boast of over thirty places dedicated to catholic 
worship within its precincts." 

The third kingdom is to be composed of the Southern States, 
and in this they will soon succeed unless something is done to 
bring the people to a knowledge of the true state of affairs. 

This society was formed in London shortly after the Quintuple 
treaty was was made.* How much the English Government gives 
toward advancing the causc» we do nat know ; but soon after this 

■*It must bo remembered in this place, *at in 184], when the Quintuple treaty 
was made, Loui.s Phillipe was King of France. In 18-15 he determined to expel the 
Jesuits from bis kingdom, and succeeded in obtaiuing from the Pope an order for 
this purpose. From that moment, Louis Phillipe was doomed to fall. With the 
unbounded love the French have for the memory of Napoleon, it was an easy 
matter for the Jesuits to bring about the elevation of Louis Napoleon, with the 
hope of lea'iing him just as they felt disposed ; but they made a terrible mistake. 
When Louis Napoleon discovered their ambitious designs, he determined to 
thwart them, and he has done so to an extent that ages qf success cannot remedy." 
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the Jesuit college at Maynooth, Ireland, was permanently en- 
dowed at the instance of government, with 26,000 pounds a year, 
and an appropriation of 30,000 pounds to enlarge the buildings. 
In this way, England is selling herself into the hands of the 
Jesuits to accomplish the ruin of this Union. 

The Orangemen in Toronto were very much censured, both in 
England and here, for trying to draw the Prince of Wales into a 
party demonstration. 

Perhaps it was not remembered by either, that when the Prince 
landed at Halifax, and the first demonstration and procession was 
to come off, a question arose with regard to the place to be as- 
signed to the different clergy. The established church came first 
of course ; the protestants claimed the next place, and so did the 
catholics. 

The Duke of New Castle decided in favor of the catholics. 
This very small matter was suflBcient to show the power of the 
catholics. England pretending to be protestant, it was expected 
that the decision would be in favor of the protestants. 

In an English work called the "Statesmen of America in 
1846,^' a chapter is devoted to Bishop Hughes, and which we 
have every reason to believe Avas revised by that prelate previous 
to its publication. He is spoken of thus : "He assumes his po- 
sition among the statesmen of America, not as an active politician, 
but as the representative, priest, controller and guardian of a 
powerful body now incorporated in [the democracy of the repub- 
lic. I allude to the Roman catholics, both native and foreign. 
The Bishop is the greatest temporal prince of America, and he is 
the greatest spiritual prince in the world."* 

" In the prevailment of the catholic religion, lies the best 
safeguard for this great country of America, against the evils, 
both public and private, which spring from the excess of liberty." 
They (the Catholic's,) " have laid the foundation stone of real 
education ; education of the heart ; the formation of character, 
withoiit tvhich liberty/ is licentiousness ; and compared to which the 
mere accomplishments of the mind and fingers are airy nothings, 
unsubstantial in possession and useless in application. In the nu- 
merous and crowded catholic schools of the United States are 
taught the exercise of prayer, the practice of morality, the laws of 
obedience and responsibility, and self sacrifice and moral and spiri- 
tual humility, and good works as well as saving faith, and charity 
and brotherly love and tolerance ; and here the strong hand of 
DISCIPLINE is felt." 

After speaking of the Established Church of England, the 
writer continues, " But I am not, cannot be blinded to the many 

*BiBhop Hughes is here placed above th« Pope. 



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excellencies of the Catholic Church, and especially as its Institu- 
tions regard America ; they are, beyond comparison, the best adap- 
ted to curb the passionsof a young, a fierce, impetuous, intelligent, 
generous and high minded democracy — to protect the religion 
of a republic from annihilation; to subdue the struggling and 
discordant interests of an immense territory into harmony, and to 
enchain the sympathies of a whole people in one magnificent scheme 
of morality and devotion. — " They shall be one fold under one 
shepherd." 

If these things were really true, where is the patriot in the land 
who would not say amen! and amen! besides doing all that ho 
could to hasten this millennium ? 

We can, however, only reason from analogy, let us then take two 
examples of nations who have been for centuries under this benign 
influence. What is the condition of Italy after the long experiment 
of priestly rule ? Travellers tell us, that there are whole villages 
whose inhabitans are numbered by hundreds, where no one can 
read or write but the priest. Mexico is in much the same or a 
worse condition, and both are making desperate efforts to place 
themselves under a different government. 

"Catholics are taught obedience;" obedience to what? not to 
the constitution and laws of the country, because the Church is to 
them a higher law, and as we have seen Avhat her intentions are 
with respect to these, we know how far they will be obeyed if they 
come in conflict. They will obey the priests, but not officers who 
administer the laws. As a specimen of this, a few months ago 
there was a rendezvous for catholics of a low order, both black and 
white, just in the rear of the E street Baptist church. Whenever 
there was worship in the church, these rowdies made so much 
noise as to disturb the congregation. The police made several 
efforts to disperse them, but failed ; at last, a priest was called 
upon, and the moment he appeared every man was dumb. By a 
motion of the hand they moved off, and the place was closed to 
them. 

In 18G0, when the clergy of all denominations in New York were 
notified of their duties with regard to the registry law, we all 
know the ground Bishop Hughes took when he refused to obey it. 
In his reply to the inspector, he closed the communication with 
this sentence : " I am prepared for a prison or a scaffold, but I 
am not prepared to obey a requisition which would violate the ob- 
ligation of my conscience in a country like this, in which it is 
said that civil and religious liherty is the right of every citizen," ^ 

The Jesuits are sworn to educate this country into their princi- 
ples and practices, in order to subjugate it. To this end, bishops, 
priests, monks, and nuns, all labor to destroy the Bible. Their 
maxim is : " give us the education of the children of the present 



day, and the next generation will be ours — ours in maxims, in 
morals, and religion." They aro now doing with education in 
the United States, precisely what they have done in every Euro- 
pean kingdom. They aifect all the learning of the world ; they 
establish their academies and their professional honors, to win the 
young into their embrace. The highest honors of their schools 
are for christian doctrine, and if protestant children go to these 
schools, they can only contend for them by such study. 

In 1859, during the progress of the war in Italy, among the 
American citizens who visited Rome, there was a gentleman whose 
opportunities for observation were such as to make his opinions 
of some importance ; for this reason his acquaintance was sought 
by some of the dignitaries of the Government. Knowing that he 
was born and reared a catholic, he was spoken to as one. 

After he returned to the United States, in answer to the ques- 
tion : What do they think in Rome of their prospects here ? he 
replied: "they speak just as confidently of their success in ob- 
taining control of this country, as if it was a settled matter, but 
how they are to accomplish the design is more than I can tell." 
He then said, " you know with Jesuitical policy, they always 
have men exactly suited to whatever they wish to accomplish. 
They now have in Rome a priest who is said to be a descendant of 
Columbus; he is to be sent to the United States whenever a pro- 
pitious time arrives, and then it is expected that he will draw every 
body after him, just as other celebrities do who come here." If 
we had doubted this statement, the doubt would have been re- 
moved by some late news from Cuba, in which it was said the 
remains of Columbus were taken from one cathedral, placed in a 
silver urn, and removed to another. A grand parade, with all the 
ceremony to make it effective, was gone through on the occasion. 
Now, it is well known to those who have read the life of Colum- 
bus, that his remains have never been in Cuba. The coffin or 
sarcophagus in which the remains were said to be, was known to 
have nothing in it when taken to Havana. 

Had this news made any impression upon Americans, no doubt 
before this, the arrival of Father Columbus would have been an- 
nounced. 

A French letter-writer says, " the political questions that agi- 
tate Italy, France, England, and more or less all Europe, are so 
much more worthy of attention, as they all rest upon the religious 
question. The existence of Roman Catholicism is in question in 
the struggle ; and as it is ostensibly connected with political abso- 
lutism represented by the Austrian Government, the ancient Gov- 
ernment of Naples and the Duchies of Tuscany, Parma, and 
Modena, the great triumph of Italian independence and unity will 
Efivo tho death blow to the power of the Roman Catholic church." 



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In Europe he should have added, for this is the secret of the gi- 
gantic efforts made by the Church in this country. Knowing 
that her power is almost gone in Europe, she is determined to es- 
tablish a firm hold here. 

When the St. Leopold Foundation was formed, the Emperor of 
Austria, in speaking of the destruction of liberal opinions, said, 
" it may require a hundred years — I am not unreasonable, I give 
you a whole age, but you must work without relaxation." Others 
a few years since, thought thirty years would accomplish the de- 
sign. 

A few days after the secession of South Carolina, a gentleman 
then in Charleston wrote to Washington: "the only exultant 
people here are the Jesuits." They knew what they were about, 
but others had launched upon an unknown sea without being able 
to see the opposite shore ; they were anxious not axultant. 

The result of our inquiries, after hearing this, has satisfied U3 
that this is the Jesuitiail plan to subvert this Government. The 
case would not admit of the delay to obtain a numerical majority, 
so they have brought about the secession movement. While En- 
glish interest is keeping up the flame of abolitionism at the North 
the Jesuits at the South say, " why dont you secede— go out of 
the Union, &c." These sentiments have been adopted by a set 
of political demagogues who have used them as the anti-slavery 
sentiment has been used at the North, until there has become so 
large a disunion party that it threatens to sweep the whole of the 
Southern States. 

There is no other way of accounting for some of the feelings 
manifested since this movement commenced, than to attribute 
them to Jesuitism. 

Some time ago the Bishop of Cincinnati said, that if the Union 
was destroyed every catholic could hold his hand over the defunct 
body and sa3% 1 had nothing to do with the death. Now, this 
means something or it means nothing, but every one knows that 
the catholics in the South arc the most ardent secessionists, and 
in the North, they are just as zealous unionists. In ordinary cases, 
when a man tries to exculpate himself from a crime of which he 
has not been charged, it is looked upon as j^rma facia evidence 
of gilt. 

Some of the secession leaders say they have been waiting thirty 
years for this opportunity to get out of the Union. This just 
coincides with the formation of the Austrian League. The first 
fruit of this league against the Government, was the nullification 
of South Carolina. 

Bishop England the Bishop of Charleston and of South Carolina, 
boasted more than twenty-five years ago, of the votes he could 
control at an election. He was one of the agents of the Leopold 



Foundation, and the most active man in the country. With such 
agencies at work for so many years, we can scarcely be surprised 
that a hatred of the Union has grown up, and urged to a crisis 
by the aggressions of the North. 

With these facts before her, where is the South to find protec- 
tion and sympathy ? Not in Europe, unless she adopts a monarch- 
ical government, and even then with an export duty on her cot- 
ton sufficient to defray the expenses of the confederacy, she will 
drive England to other quarters for a supply, as she will not buy 
a single bale if she can get it any where else. New England will 
adopt the same course and buy where she can, at the lowest price ; 
where then will the South find a market for her cotton? 

The whole affair, from the first anti- slavery agitation to the 
last act of secession, is part and parcel of a most suicidal farce, 
which will end in a grand tragedy unless the actors adopt com- 
mon sense instead of acting at cross purposes. 

Both the North and the South have been magnificently hum- 
bugged into doing what neither would do with their eyes open. 

Every day demonstrates that extremes meet as the Northern 
abolitionist and the ultra secessionist are both determined to ac- 
cept of no compromise. 

A large party at the North talk of coercing the Southern 
States to keep them in the Union. If, instead of such feeling, 
they would extend to the real majority their sympathy, and of- 
fer their aid in getting out of the trouble in which political dema- 
gogues have plunged them, there would be more Christianity dis- 
played. 

We do not admit that the Union has been dissolved. "We 
the people adopted the Constitution, and if there is any way of 
dissolving this contract, it must be done by the people. 

When the people elect representatives to a legislature, they 
have nothing to do with the matter but to obey the laws passed 
by their representatives. The judiciary decide upon the constitu- 
tionality of the laws ; but when a convention meet to make or 
amend a constitution, the acts of that body are submitted to the 
people for their confirmation. Now, if the people of the South 
have delegated to their representatives the right to take away 
their liberties they must abide by the consequences ; but if they 
have not, then the Federal Government is bound to see them pro- 
tected. 

Our enemies glory in our divisions; by them they declare 
boastingly that they shall prevail over us. Let us show them 
that freemen can be united by noble principles, by the love of 
God, of our country, of freedom, of humanity, more closely than 
the vassals of superstition by terror and chains. Divided, we are 
less potent than a rope of sand ; United, we can defy the world 



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and tlie Jesuits. Let us demoQstrate to them that they have 
mistaken the people, and over estimated their power. And if 
they designed to take the Capitol by a plot, they ■will find (thanks 
to the President and General Scott,) that they cannot do it, 
thoucrh they may have their churches filled with arms and ammu- 
nition. But this is not the first time they have made a grand 
mistake. The result of the Popish plot of 1678 in England, was 
the writ of habeas corpus which can penetrate their prisons and 
dungeons, no matter how far they are placed under ground, and 
the present struggle may perhaps result in the establishment of 
religious liberty throughout the civilized world. 

in the words of Henry Clay : " We are fighting a great moral 
battle for the benefit, not only of our country, out of all man- 
kind. The eyes of the whole world are in fixed attention upon 
us. One, and the largest portion of it, is gazing with contempt, 
with jealousy, and with envy ; the other portion, with hope, with 
confidence, and with affection. Every where the black cloud of 
legitimacy is suspended over the world, save only one bright 
spot which breaks out from the political hemisphere of the West, 
to enlighten and animate and gladden the human heart — ob- 
scure that, by the downfall of liberty here, and all mankind are 
enshrouded in a pall of universal darkness." 

American citizens to be forewarned is to be forearmed. In the 
light of these facts can we hesitate a moment as to our duty ? 
Shall we suffer ourselves to be the dupes of British intrigue and 
Jesuitical cunning, or shall we not rather frown indignantly on 
all attempts, come from whatever source they may, to array one 
section against another, and thus jeopard the fair fabric of liberty 
to which the eyes of the oppressed of all nations are turned 1 



The collection of facts here presented, was made for the pur- 
pose of showing to the people the means used by designing per- 
sons to destroy our liberties, and thus bring discredit upon a re- 
publican form of Government. Having accomplished the object, 
we intended to leave the subject at this point. A providential 
delay in the publication, with an accumulation of startling events, 
has determined us to add a few pages. 

Every one who has paid any attention to political parties and 
thoir leaders has seen, that instead of radical difference of opin- 
ion and principles being the cause of opposition, it is simply the 
individual interests of the parties. The desire of power and of 
plunder, which, as all cannot share, each is desirous of seizmg and 
holding. 

Our public men, instead of doing all they can to advance th« 



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interests of tlie country and of the people, marshall themselves in 
alliances and hostilities for their own interests. Principles are 
professed for the purpose of better compassing their objects, by 
maintaining a character and gaining the support of the people. 

For many years the Democratic party has monopolized the power 
and of course the plunder. The party had become so corrupt that 
the people determined to make a change. The opposition was 
composed of parties with all sorts of interests and a diversity of 
of principles. Opposition to slavery was the first question embra- 
cing those of every grade from the ultra British Abolitionist down 
to the men who imagine that the slave may come in competition 
-with their grand children in the territories. The question being 
a sectional one, the people soon found that there was really some 
danger of the Union — there were then thousands and thousands 
■who determined to vote the Republican ticket because they were 
satisfied that Mr. Lincoln was a conservative, honest, and upright 
man, who would administer the laws with equal justice to all. 

As soon as the election was over, the different parties or inter- 
est in the dominant party, commenced a fierce contest to deter- 
mine which should control the President, and of course the Ad- 
ministration. 

The people both North and South desired peace, but the leaders 
of both sections had determined upon war. The secessionist 
wishes to get out and remain out of the Union. The British 
Abolitionist says, " the Union without slavery, or break it up.'' 
To accomplish this, the President was forced into the course pur- 
sued with regard to Fort Sumpter, in order to get up the war 
spirit both North and South, and he is now menaced with threats 
from this same disunion party at the North, that if he does not 
push on a war of aggression upon the whole South, that they will 
not only impeach, but depose him. 

The Republicans, as a party, we believe, have no desire to 
meddle with slavery, but if they permit themselves to be made 
the instruments of the Abolitionists, and on the pretence of saving 
the Union, go to fighting for it, they will find, when it is too late, 
that they have destroyed it. Who has not heard the story of the 
man "who ran up stairs when the house was on fire and threw a 
looking-glass out of the window to save it. The position occupied 
by the majority of the people at the North and the West, is just 
the same as that of this man. Their love of the Union amounts 
to adoration, and they are Avilling to give themselves and all they 
have, to save it, but in their zeal and devotion, they 'are more 
likely to destroy it forever. Send an army South under existing 
circumstances and you may retake all the property that belongs 
to the Federal Government, but this can only be done by a sacri- 
fice of human life worth infinitely more than all the property in 



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the States, and after it is done, where is the Union ? and how is 
it to be maintained ? The Union will, no doubt, be very much 
like that between Ireland and England, or of Hungary and 
Austria, or of Poland and her plunderers, and like them, must 
be maintained by a large standing army. 

There are now two parties, one of the Korth and one of the 
South, each actuated by the most bitter and revengeful feelings. 
The Northern party say, " we will whip the rebels back into the 
Union ;" while the Southern party say, " we will never go back 
to be under abolition rule." "VVhile this is the case, there is no 
Union. One side is just as nucdi revolution as the other. 

Had Mr. Buchanan, in December last, issued a proclamation '''^- l^ 
assuring the Union men of the South that they would be sustained T" 
if the whole force of the Federal Government was required to do 
so, secession would have died a natural death, or have been put 
down by those who have become secessionists in self defence. 

The Union men of Virginia did all that could be done to bring 
about a peaceful solution of the diflRculty. The Peace Convention 
would have been a success if the delegates had been sent here by 
the people ; but, the abolition element being the strongest in the . 
Republican party, and most of the governors in the states rep- 
resented being republicans, a majority of the delegates appointed 
came here to advocate the interests of themselves or their friends 
in the plunder about to pass into the hands of the party. On the 
other hand, ultra secessionists in the disguise of Union men, rep- 
resented a part of the South. With such men nothing could be 
expected that would be of service to any but themselves. Sum- 
ner said, " we have achieved a victory and we intend to enjoy 
the benefits thereof." The benefit to the disunion party which 
he represents, is the abolition of slavery, and to do this, every 
slaveholder must be exterminated if it can be done in no other 
way. Are the Union men of the North and West willing to be 
used for any such purpose ! We think not. 

We will no doubt be told that all party lines have been sunk 
and nothing but Union is thought of. Ihis is true we believe and 
the disunion party can well afiord now to ignore party lines when 
they have led the people into the snare just as Jesuitism has led 
the people of the South into secession. 

We might feel satisfied with the apparent war policy if such 
men as Governer Andrew, Sumner, leecher, Greely k Co., were 
not at the head of the movement Or if they are not at the 
head of it, they so cordially endorse the proceedings that it is time 
to suspect there is something wrong about it. Men who have for 
years declared that the "Constitution is a league with hell," arid 
have prayed for the advent of " an anti-slavery constitution, an 



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anti-slavery Bible and an anti slavery God," can have no genuine? 
love for the Union and the Constitution as our fathers left it to 
us. Is there not then ground for suspicion that the men who sym- 
pathized with and endorsed John Brown and his acts, are engaged 
in getting up another invasion upon a grand scale with the aid of 
the Government. It is time the people should know what they 
are doing. The abolition and politico religious papers at the North 
Bay the army is to be sent to " aid the brethren and set them f ee" 
and ''the downfall of slavery is at hand." These are the things 
that have driven thousands into secession, they were satisfied if 
the abolition clique obtained the control of the party that their 
their threats would be carried out. Giddings, who is in Canada, no 
doubt suggested the employment of the fugitive slaves offered for 
the war. Canada would be glad to get them out of her terri- 
tory. 

If this abolition movement is carried out, and the slaves are 
set free, where are they to go ? Are the people of tlie North 
ready to admit them as competiors for the work by which they 
and their families are sustained ? We leave the question to be 
answered by those interested in the matter. 

We have our own opinion about the course to be pursued, in 
order to correct some of the blunders that have been made, and 
we give it for what it is worth. If any one has a better plan, 
let him send it on. 

We would never acknowledge secession, but the people want 
peace and not war, and the only way which we can see to get out 
of the present difficulty, is to blockade every port from Cap May 
to the Rio Grande. Encircle the seceded States with a line of 
troops, and cut off all supplies except provisions. Offer a reward 
for the heads of the leading conspirators, and then send an army 
large enough to protect the Unionists and to prevent insurrection 
of the slaves. Even these things cannot be done peacefully unless 
there is some change in public opinion both North and South, and 
this change must commence in the North. In 1850, Union meetings 
■were held all over the North — speeches were made and resolutions 
passed, deprecating disunion, but no measures were taken to put 
doAvn disunion. Laws in violation of the Constitution, were pas- 
sed in several of the States, and when the people were called 
upon to vote, they too often forgot the Union, and voted against 
it. The underground railroad was sustained, and the people per- 
mitted such things to be done. Again, when John Brown made 
his raid upon Harper's Ferry, the same kind of Union meetings 
were held, Brown was denounced, and when votes were to be 
given, his aiders and supporters obtained them. Such meetings 
have been played out, they will do no good, as no reliance can bo 
placed upon them. 



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If the people are for Union and Peace, let them declare their 
determination to maintain the Union peacefully. 

Let meetings be held in every village or in every place where 
votes are polled, and say to the South and to your representa- 
tives in Congress, we are determined to sustain the Unionists of 
the South, and just as determined to put down disunion, both 
Morth and South. Do this, live up to it, and there is yet hope 
of the Union. Can any one doubt that the South would accept 
such terms ? All they have ever asked (we mean the people, not 
the demagogues,) has been, to be lot alone with their domestic 
institutions to suit themselves. Northern demagogues will tell 
you that Southern politicians have ruled the country for so many 
years. If this is true, it was time to make a change, but Ave do 
not want a Northern rule ; no section has a right to rule where 
all have equal rights. Again, we are told that the South want 
to force slavery upon the North, there is ju-^t as much truth in 
this assertion as there is in declaring that the whole North are 
abolitionists. 

The people hold the game in there own hands ; they have the 
fighting to do as well as the bills to piy. The whole Union is the 
stake and the players are the Unionist on one side, and on the 
other, the Disunionists. 




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